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News wires recently reported that famous romance novelist Danielle Steele was a victim of embezzlement by her own staff . Here are some things you need to do to protect your business and ensure that your accountant is not dipping his/her fingers into your bank account
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Hiring An Accountant: How to Protect Your Business From Embezzlement
Oil and gas producer Santos says the federal government’s proposed new tax on profits in the resources sector is nothing but “bad news”.
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Resources tax ‘bad news’: Santos
The U.S. Department of the Treasury found itself the victim of hacker attacks on three of its websites, all of which proceeded to distribute malicious software to visitors, security firm AVG says. According to AVG researcher Roger Thompson, as of Monday, three domains associated with the home page of the U.S.
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U.S. Department of the Treasury Sites Hacked
Apple ‘s just released the latest developer firmware before the official iPhone 4.0 roll-out. This is geeky. What is not geeky is some of the secrets it reveals about the future iPhone workings.
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iPhone 4 Firmware Reveals File-Sharing, Orientation Lock, and How to Close Multitasking Apps [Updated]
CNN and CBS News have romanced each other off and on for more than a decade, and they are checking again to see if the time is right for a serious business relationship.
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Time may be right for CNN, CBS News deal
Today, people are very conscious of their health and everyone wants to remain fit and fine. In order to maintain their fitness level some people are going for work out in gyms and some people prefer to do outdoor exercises. Going to gym requires some expenses such as the fees of the instructors or the personal trainers
We have been trained so well to associate the light bulb with insight and creative thinking that simply sitting under one can inspire, well, insight and creative thinking.
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Here’s an Idea: Light Bulbs Make Us Better Thinkers
Advertising Age looks at small-paper paywalls and finds that they’re having some success—at least in staving off print declines. I’ve argued that newspapers have got to charge online one way or another (I favor The Wall Street Journal’s hybrid approach) to try to preserve lucrative print circulation, something Walter Hussman of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has…
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Ad Age Shows Paywalls Preserving Print Circulation
News Corp., owner of the Twentieth Century Fox film studio, dropped the most in 10 months in U.S. trading after projecting a decline in fourth-quarter earnings on lower profit from films and the Fox broadcast network.
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News Corp. Drops After Forecasting Earnings Decline (Update1)
At the Web 2.0 Expo, Adobe Systems teases us with a “reference device” tablet that’s running Google Android OS. It’s not even a prototype – but even a detail like that couldn’t curb blogosphere buzz.
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Adobe clears the "Air" on Android Tablet at Web 2.0 Expo [video]
Adobe’s CTO argues that Apple is like a railroad company in the 1800s trying to wall off a key commerce route—mobile apps. The solution: Adobe is focusing on Android and everything that’s not…
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Adobe CTO: Apple trying to wall off the Web; Jobs as railroad baron?
If your net income from the business is $xxx or more, you must pay self-employment tax, which is the Social Security tax for a self-employed individual. The good news is one-half of your self-employment tax is deductible from your adjusted gross income
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I own a small business. Do I need to pay Social Security tax
After a few weeks of news coverage of Republican complaints that the financial reform legislation moving through Congress would permit future “bailouts,” the contentious provision has been dropped from the bill. Trouble is, while GOP leaders kept using that dreaded b-word, and the business press often reported it, the measure didn’t look much like a bailout at all. We’ll have…
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He Said-She Said Victim
Rube Goldberg was a brilliant cartoonist and inventor. He is best known for a series of popular cartoons he created depicting complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways – now known as Rube Goldberg machines, reports Puggal
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Rube Goldberg: Inventor and Cartoonist
As I’ve mentioned in previous columns , one of the earliest methods of “tele-reading” on the Internet was fan-written fiction, or fanfic. Fanfics were available electronically before most other books simply because they had to be, to be shared with other fans on the Internet. Already popular back when the Internet was inhabited by only a handful of college students, it positively exploded as the Internet grew.
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Novelist Diana Gabaldon causes fanfic furor
WASHINGTON, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Four Brooklyn, N.Y.-area residents have been charged in connection with a health care fraud scheme operated out of the Solstice Wellness Center, a Brooklyn-area clinic that purported to specialize in providing physical therapy and various diagnostic tests, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Brooklyn Physical Therapy Clinic Executive and Three Employees Charged in Health Care Fraud Scheme
Freelance writers are budget conscious and enjoy taking advantage of bargains and freebies. That’s why every now and then I like to throw out lists of free things for writers. You can probably find all these resources on your own, but isn’t it nice to have them all in one convenient place?
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252 Free Things for Freelance Writers
A preteen student in Pennsylvania is receiving praise for his innovative idea, an idea that could possibly revolutionize the auto industry reports WIS News 10 . “There’s this new idea about solar panels they’re thinking about putting it on a car! And I thought if it doesn’t work at night how would you work it? So then one time I came over here and I saw the windmill,” said young inventor Billy Schopf.
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The Power Of Wind… For Your Car
May 5 (Bloomberg) — Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bewkes said the CNN cable-news channel had discussions with news organizations about partnerships for news delivery.
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Time Warner Says CNN Talked to News Organizations for Partners
The Gizmodo “4G” iPhone prototype story continues to get play in the blogosphere. Dan Gillmor posts a look at Apple’s behavior —apparently prompting a police raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s house—and New York Times columnist David Carr’s editorial about it
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Dan Gillmor still worried by Apple’s implications for journalism